Posted on 12/14/2004 8:43:54 AM PST by television is just wrong
STEIN REPORT XXXXX Friday, December 10 2004 13:10:34 ET XXXXX
MASS. ILLEGAL ALIENS SEEK IN-STATE TUITION RATE
"Advocates for immigrants and refugees yesterday renewed their demand for cheaper, in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants at state colleges, saying the results of the fall elections show that the Legislature can pass the measure without political damage," the Boston Globe reports. "The in-state tuition bill, which was refiled Dec. 1, would allow immigrant students who have lived in Massachusetts for three years and graduated from a Massachusetts high school to pay in-state tuition rates at the state's colleges, regardless of their immigration status. It would help about 400 students. The measure was passed by both houses as a budget provision earlier this year, but [Gov. Mitt] Romney vetoed the item in June, saying, ''I do not want to create an incentive to do something which is illegal.'"
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I, for one, would like to get a tax deduction on my illegal drug purchases. And I would like to get a discount on a handgun, as long as I planned to commit a crime with it.
This is not helping anyone right off the boat.
Massachusetts used to pay for women on welfare to get fertility treatments.
Maybe fifteen years ago the supreme court of the commonwealth, in a rare display of common sense, said the state did not have to.
I wait with bemusement. Massachusetts makes New Jersey look good.
This is not helping anyone right off the boat.
Uh, there's no boat...they're walking in.
''This piece of legislation seems to get some people very worked up, so worked up that they are willing to spend over a million dollars sending literature denouncing brown children who happened to want to go to college after their graduation from high school in our commonwealth," the Cambridge Democrat said.
Interesting that the color "brown" is a detail that Mr. Barrios thought important. In other words, if you don't agree with us you are a racist? Is that why he include the irrelevant skin color? A very sad state (commonwealth?) of affairs.
Another bad idea from the Western states migrate east.
"......regardless of their immigration status...."
Illegal aliens have no immigration status.....they are no better than claim-jumpers!
Uh, there's no boat...they're walking in.
What! You are making them walk!!! How horrid. Why are you folks not sending limos?!?!?!? Where is the public mass transit for these folks? Car pool lane for the folks with illegal drivers licenses only??
The above was supposed to be sarcam but I can hear my Bostonian relatives saythis this stuff and being serious.
Actually I think it is a terrific idea. Maybe them you people will see what we in California are dealing with because of liberal views on open borders.
Sure, let the criminals kids go to college, then they can take the white collar jobs our kids wont do!
Well, we know who these 400 illegals are. Go get 'em and ship them out. It a start...
Most of them are already here. The kids speak English, the parents do not. The parents get on welfare, and food stamps and HUD, oh, and what ever else the Feds grant them. Including free interest loans to buy homes with that the rest of us cannot get. (discrimination by our government),
Tell the white house that.
Good thing they can't vote...
Motor Voter! D'oh!
Citizenship?.....We Dun Need No Steenking Citizenship
That sounds good on the surface, but in reality once it becomes common-place you'll never get rid of it.
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